{"id":2500,"date":"2009-10-27T16:55:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T20:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2009-10-27T16:55:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T20:55:05","slug":"distilled-thought-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2500","title":{"rendered":"Distilled Thought of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heard this thought on right-wing talk radio today (Hugh Hewitt, to be exact):&#160; The polls don&#8217;t show that most people are for a public option, it shows that they&#8217;re for a public option <em>that doesn&#8217;t cost anything<\/em>.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m for a bigger house.&#160; Doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m going to (or should) get it.&#160; The polls (or &quot;cricket races&quot; to our own Mark Olsen&quot; show what people think about what they&#8217;ve been sold, not necessarily what they&#8217;re going to get.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/story\/2009\/10\/27\/71741\/804\">Liberal blogs proclaim<\/a> that the public wants the public option, when the public has been lied to about that option.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Just more <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bread_and_circuses\">bread and circuses<\/a> given away in order to coax the people to give government more power.&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heard this thought on right-wing talk radio today (Hugh Hewitt, to be exact):&#160; The polls don&#8217;t show that most people are for a public option, it shows that they&#8217;re for a public option that doesn&#8217;t cost anything.&#160; I&#8217;m for a bigger house.&#160; Doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m going to (or should) get it.&#160; The polls (or &quot;cricket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,275],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-government","category-healthcare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}